The Center for Instructional Technology supports multiple tools for faculty. Below is a brief description of each as well as link to the respective support page.
Blackboard Learn (Faculty Support) (Student Support)
Blackboard Learn technology helps you make learning more effective in and beyond the traditional walls. Breathing life into educational content. Bringing efficiency to day-to-day tasks. Empowering instructors with tools to engage every learner. Motivating them on the devices they rely on. Promoting collaboration and streamlining processes.
Blackboard Mobile (Faculty Support) (Student Support) *The app is free for UMES users
Give your learners, educators, and community access to all aspects of the educational experience on their mobile devices and they’ll be able to go anywhere. That’s what Blackboard Mobile solutions are all about. Giving you the power to engage everyone on their terms and devices. Offering instant access to the information they need. Encouraging the interaction they crave.
Blackboard Collaborate (Faculty Support) (Student Support)
Offer a more collaborative, interactive, and mobile learning experience that constantly evolves, and you’ll keep everyone engaged like never before. That’s what the Blackboard Collaborate online collaboration platform is all about. Helping you create virtual classrooms, offices and meeting spaces that open more possibilities to more students, wherever they are. Offering exciting new approaches to learning while involving each student on an individual level.
Respondus is a powerful tool for creating and managing exams that can be printed to paper or published directly to Blackboard. Exams can be created offline using a familiar Windows environment. Whether you are a veteran of online testing or relatively new to it, Respondus will save you hours on each project
Respondus LockDown Browser
LockDown Browser creates a “locked” testing environment for Blackboard assessments
Respondus Monitor is a companion application that integrates webcam technology with LockDown Browser. Together they address the core issues of student identity and cheating, creating an essential layer of security for non-proctored assessments.
Online tutoring service that provides remote academic support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Echo360 is a lecture capture platform that combines rich media and ease-of-use to give students full and unbounded access to their classroom-based content through multi-platform replay. The Echo360 System helps to simplify the process of scheduling, creating, and publishing interactive course content, called echoes, for web-based student review.